Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of the New Deal revolution, businessmen had learned to be wary as alley cats. Even when they plied their trades unmolested, they knew that any time they carelessly stepped into the light they were apt to catch a flying epithet or get tripped into a bureaucratic deadfall. If it was not class warfare, it sometimes seemed a lot like...
...dwarf epithet was interesting; Tito's height of 5 feet 7½ inches (average for southern Slavs) is on record in London at Madame Tussaud's Waxworks-whence he sent it along with one of his fancy uniforms to drape his ozocerite likeness. The Literary Gazette's own Joseph Stalin in 1936 had refused to give Tussaud's any data, and they had mistakenly reconstructed...
...Christian Bore. Yet, complains Author Sayers, dullness is just the epithet people most often apply to dogma, simply because the churches have lately tended to subordinate dogma to a vague, generalized effulgence of sweetness and light. To demonstrate, she concocts a short examination paper with answers that might be expected from the ordinary layman...
...Band earned its epithet early in the program with "The Seafarer," Haydn Wood's arrangement of sea chanties. Tunes such as "Shenandoah" and "Away Rio" were played in a fine, sweeping style in the Band's first performance of the intricate work. A smooth rendition of Jose Padilla's "El Relicario" was the highlight of the second portion of the program...
...facts across. It submitted a slim, blue-covered booklet containing the testimony of twelve men & women who had survived Russian slave labor camps. To read and interpret their story, the A.F.L. picked a veteran German socialist, tiny Toni Sender, whose renowned taunts of Nazi bigwigs had earned her the epithet "Mrs. Big Mouth." Among the case histories she had gathered...